Perhaps this won't come as a surprise to some higher ed leaders: Affordability is not quite as important as weather for students in applying to or choosing a college.
Erasing college tuition and related frees does not equate to a free education. Living expenses, such as housing and food, still can leave aspiring students with surprising price tags.
The Career Ladders Project examined how six pairs of community colleges and K12 districts in Southern California have built high-quality dual enrollment pathways.
Stopped-out learners' past-due balances often bar them from re-enrolling in higher education. The Ohio College Comeback Compact has helped 95% of eligible students return to their debt-holding institution.
The net price full-time students attending four-year private institutions paid in 2024-25 has declined by almost 15% since 2006-07. At four-year publics: 43%
Texas had nearly twice the number of dual-enrolled students in fall 2015 compared to the second-most, New York, according to new research from the Community College Research Center. But how did their completion rates fare?
A demographic, dubbed "Rising Talent" can serve as an auxiliary source of enrollment beyond some college leaders' recent efforts to re-enroll previously stopped-out adult learners, declares a new report from WGU Labs.
The Stanfords and Yales of higher education may help some of America's low-income students prosper, but new data from Third Way shows which institutions have the biggest impact on the nation's must vulnerable.
